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{{Short description|Dutch cyclist (born 1970)}}
[[Image:Van moorsel.jpg|thumb|Leontien van Moorsel.]]
{{use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}
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{{Family name hatnote|lang=Dutch|van Moorsel|wrong=Moorsel}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name = Leontien van Moorsel
| image = Leontien van Moorsel WCh 1991v2.jpg
| caption = Leontien van Moorsel in 1991
| fullname = Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1970|3|22}}
| birth_place = [[Boekel]], Netherlands
| height =
| weight =
| currentteam =
| discipline = Road & track
| role = Rider
| ridertype =
| amateuryears1 = 1992
| amateurteam1 = KNWU AMEV Batavus A-selectie Nederland
| amateuryears2 = 1997
| amateurteam2 =VKS
| amateuryears3 = 1999
| amateurteam3 =Opstalan
| proyears1 = 2000–2004
| proteam1 = [[Hartol–Farm Frites]]
| majorwins =
'''Stage races'''
:[[Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale]] (1992, 1993)
:[[Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin]] (1991)
:[[Emakumeen Bira]] (2000)
:[[Trophée d'Or Féminin]] (2000)
'''One day races & classics'''
:Olympic Road Champion (2000)
:Olympic Time Trial Champion (2000, 2004)
:World Road Champion (1991, 1993)
:World Time Trial Champion (1998, 1999)
:National Road Champion (1998–2000, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999)
:National Time Trial Champion (1997, 1998–2002)

| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry|the {{NED}} }}
{{MedalCountry|the {{NED}} }}
{{MedalSport|[[Road bicycle racing]]}}
{{MedalSport | Women's [[Road bicycle racing]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalGold | [[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]] | Road race}}
{{MedalGold | [[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]] | [[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's road race|Road race]]}}
{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney | Time trial}}
{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney | [[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's road time trial|Time trial]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | Time trial}}
{{MedalGold | [[Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | [[Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's road time trial|Time trial]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Road World Championships, Women|Road World Championship]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Road World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1991 UCI Road World Championships|1991 Stuttgart]]|[[1991 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race|Road race]]}}
{{MedalGold|1999|Time Trial}}
{{MedalGold|[[1993 UCI Road World Championships|1993 Oslo]]|[[1993 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race|Road race]]}}
{{MedalGold|1998|Time Trial}}
{{MedalGold|[[1998 UCI Road World Championships|1998 Valkenburg]]|[[1998 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial|Time trial]]}}
{{MedalGold|1993|Road Race}}
{{MedalGold|[[1999 UCI Road World Championships|1999 Verona]]|[[1999 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial|Time trial]]}}
{{MedalGold|1991|Road Race}}
{{MedalSilver|1998|Road Race}}
{{MedalSilver|1998 Valkenburg|[[1998 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race|Road race]]}}
{{MedalSport|[[Track cycling]]}}
{{MedalSport | Women's [[Track cycling]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney | Individual pursuit}}
{{MedalGold | 2000 Sydney | [[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalSilver| 2000 Sydney | Points race}}
{{MedalSilver| 2000 Sydney | [[Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's points race|Points race]]}}
{{MedalBronze| 2004 Athens | Individual pursuit}}
{{MedalBronze| 2004 Athens | [[Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Track World Championships, Women|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1990 Maebashi City]]|[[1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Women's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalGold|2003 Stuttgart|3 km Pursuit}}
{{MedalGold|[[2001 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2001 Antwerp]]|[[2001 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Women's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalGold|2002 Copenhagen|3 km Pursuit}}
{{MedalGold|[[2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2002 Copenhagen]]|[[2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Women's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalGold|2001 Antwerp|3 km Pursuit}}
{{MedalGold|[[2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|2003 Stuttgart]]|[[2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Women's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalGold|1990 Maebashi City|3 km Pursuit}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1998 Bordeaux]]|[[1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Women's individual pursuit|Individual pursuit]]}}
{{MedalSilver|1998 Bordeaux|3 km Pursuit}}
}}
{{MedalBottom}}


'''Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel''' (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired [[racing cyclist]]. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the [[Hour record#Hour records .28female.29|hour record]] for women from 2003 until 2015.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/zi/leontien-zijlaard-van-moorsel-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417105313/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/zi/leontien-zijlaard-van-moorsel-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Leontien van Moorsel Olympic Results |access-date=27 August 2016}}</ref>
'''Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella 'Leontien' van Moorsel''' (born [[March 22]] [[1970]] in [[Boekel]]) is a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[racing cyclist]]. She is also known under her married name, '''Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel'''.


==Career==
Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s and was soon one of the best cyclists in the world. She won major races both on the [[track cycling|track]], and on the [[Road bicycle racing|road]]. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the [[Grande Boucle|Tour Féminin]] twice, after fierce competition with [[Jeannie Longo]].
[[File:2018 Amstel Gold Race Ladies 180.jpg|thumb|Leontien van Moorsel at the [[2018 Amstel Gold Race (women's race)|2018 Women's Amstel Gold Race]].|alt=]]
Van Moorsel started her career in 1977.{{Dubious|date=August 2020}} She won major races both on the [[track cycling|track]], and on the [[Road bicycle racing|road]]. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the [[Grande Boucle|Tour Féminin]] twice, after fierce competition with [[Jeannie Longo]].


Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with depression and [[anorexia nervosa]]. Together with [[Michael Zijlaard]], whom she married in 1995, she overcame her ill health. She was selected to compete at the world championships in 1998. Here, her first major tournament for four years, she surprised by winning the time trial and coming second in the road race. Since then, she has won a number of world titles.
Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with [[anorexia nervosa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leontienfoundation.nl/leontien-s-eigen-verhaal |title=Leontiens eigen verhaal |publisher=Leontienfoundation.nl |access-date=2012-08-23 |language=nl}}</ref> but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race.


At the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in [[Sydney]], van Moorsel was one of the most successful athletes. She won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3km pursuit). At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]], she was one of the favorites in the road race but she fell in the penultimate lap. Despite injury, she competed in the time trial three days later and successfully defended her title. With four gold, one silver, and a bronze Olympic medal, Leontien van Moorsel is one of the most successful Dutch athletes ever.
At the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in [[Sydney]], van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3&nbsp;km pursuit). At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]], she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race and was stretchered off and taken to the hospital by ambulance,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=3584545 |title=Cycling: Ulmer's rival crashes out - Sport - NZ Herald News |publisher=Nzherald.co.nz |date=16 August 2004 |access-date=2012-08-23}}</ref> but nevertheless successfully defended her time trial title two days later.


She set a new world [[Hour record#Hour records .28female.29|hour record]] for women of 46.065&nbsp;km, in 2003 in Mexico City,<ref name=Grdn>{{cite news|last1=Clemitson|first1=Suze|title=Why Jens Voigt and a new group of cyclists want to break the Hour record|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/100-tours-100-tales/2014/sep/19/why-jens-voigt-and-a-new-group-of-cyclists-want-to-break-the-hour-record|access-date=19 September 2014|work=The Guardian|date=19 September 2014}}</ref> which was not improved upon for almost 12 years, when UCI rule changes prompted a new succession of attempts.
After her last race at the 2004 Olympics, the individual pursuit, van Moorsel retired from professional cycling.

Van Moorsel retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.

In 2017 Van Moorsel became director of the [[Amstel Gold Race (women's race)|Women's Amstel Gold Race]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cyclingtips.com/2016/10/its-official-there-will-be-a-womens-amstel-gold-race-in-2017/|title=It's official: there will be a women's Amstel Gold Race in 2017 {{!}} CyclingTips|website=CyclingTips|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621092809/https://cyclingtips.com/2016/10/its-official-there-will-be-a-womens-amstel-gold-race-in-2017/|archive-date=2019-06-21|access-date=2020-01-23}}</ref>

In September 2017, Van Moorsel was accused by sports physician Peter Janssen of using [[Erythropoietin|EPO]] in 2000 and 2001.<ref>Thomas Blom & Misha Wessel, "[https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/oud-wielerarts-leontien-van-moorsel-gebruikte-epo~a4515790/ Oud-wielerarts: Leontien van Moorsel gebruikte epo]" (in Dutch), ''[[de Volkskrant]]'', 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.</ref>


== Major results ==
== Major results ==
{{Palmares start}}
{{div col start|colwidth=30em}}
;1985
;1990
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Novice Road Race Championships
:World champion 5km pursuit

:World champion 50km team time trial
;1987
;1991
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Novice Road Race Championships
:World champion road race

;1992
;1988
:Tour Feminin
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Road Race Championships
;1993

:World champion road race
;1989
:Tour Feminin
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Road Race Championships
:1st Stage 1 [[Tour of Norway]]

;1990
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track Cycling World Championships]] (Individual Pursuit)
:1st [[1990 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]] Team Time Trial
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Road Race Championships
:2nd Overall [[Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin]]
:National Track Championship
::3rd Points race
::3rd Individual sprint
:3rd [[Chrono des Nations]]

;1991
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[1991 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]] Road Race
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Track Championships (Team pursuit)
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin]]
:3rd National Road Race Championships

;1992
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Road Race Championships
:National Track Championship
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale]]

;1993
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[1993 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]] Road Race
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale]]
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Road Race Championships
:2nd Overall [[Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin]]

;1997
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Time Trial Championships
:National Track Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 1 & 3

;1998
;1998
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow chrono.svg|20px]] [[1998 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]] Time Trial
:World champion time trial
:National Road Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Road Race
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Time Trial
:National Track Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Individual pursuit
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Points race
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Ster van Zeeland]]
::1st Stages 1 & 3
:1st [[Parel van de Veluwe]]
:1st [[Omloop der Kempen]]
:2nd Overall [[Boels Rental Ladies Tour]]
::1st Stage 1
:2nd [[1998 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]] Road Race
:2nd [[1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track Cycling World Championships]] (Individual Pursuit)

;1999
;1999
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow chrono.svg|20px]] [[1999 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]] Time Trial
:World champion time trial
:National Road Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Road Race
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Time Trial
:National Track Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Individual pursuit
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Points race
:1st [[File:Jersey orange.svg|20px]] Overall [[Boels Rental Ladies Tour]]
::1st Stages 2 & 7
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Ster van Zeeland]]
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Overall [[Greenery International]]
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
:1st Overall [[Boekel]]
::1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 2
:1st [[Damesronde van Drenthe]]
:1st [[Omloop van Kanaleneiland]]
:1st [[Omloop der Kempen]]
:2nd [[Rotterdam Tour]]

;2000
;2000
:Olympic champion road race
:[[2000 Olympic Games|Olympic Games]]
::1st [[File:Gold medal olympic.svg|15px]] Road Race
:Olympic champion time trial
::1st [[File:Gold medal olympic.svg|15px]] Time Trial
:Olympic champion 3km pursuit
::1st [[File:Gold medal olympic.svg|15px]] Individual pursuit
:Olympic silver medallist points race
::2nd [[File:Silver medal olympic.svg|15px]] Points race
:National Road Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Time Trial
::2nd Road Race
:National Track Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Individual pursuit
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Points race
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Emakumeen Bira]]
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Trophée d'Or Féminin]]
:1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Ster van Zeeland]]
::1st Stages 1 & 2
:1st Overall [[Westfriese Dorpenomloop]]
::1st Prologue & Stage 1
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 1, 2a & 2b
:1st [[Ronde van het Ronostrand]]
:1st [[Omloop der Kempen]]
:1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 [[Giro Donne|Giro d'Italia Femminile]]

;2001
;2001
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[2001 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track Cycling World Championships]] (Individual Pursuit)
:World champion 3km pursuit
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Time Trial Championships
:National Track Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Individual pursuit
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Points race
:1st Overall [[Ster van Zeeland]]
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Overall [[Boekel]]
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st [[Acht van Chaam]]
:1st [[Egmond-Pier-Egmond]]
:1st [[Souvenir Magali Pache]]
:1st [[Profronde van Stiphout]]
:1st [[Profronde van Surhuisterveen]]
:1st Prologue [[Giro Donne|Giro d'Italia Femminile]]
:1st Stage 1 [[Boels Rental Ladies Tour]]
:3rd [[Amstel Gold Race (women's race)|Amstel Gold Race]]

;2002
;2002
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track Cycling World Championships]] (Individual Pursuit)
:World champion 3km pursuit
:National Road Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Time Trial
::2nd Road Race
:National Track Championships
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Individual pursuit
::1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] Points race
:1st Overall [[RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden]]
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a
:1st Overall [[Westfriese Dorpenomloop]]
::1st Stages 1 & 2
:1st [[Amstel Gold Race (women's race)|Amstel Gold Race]]
:1st [[Damesronde van Drenthe]]
:1st [[Acht van Chaam]]
:1st [[Egmond-Pier-Egmond]]
:1st [[Profronde van Stiphout,]]

;2003
;2003
:1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|UCI Track Cycling World Championships]] (Individual Pursuit)
:World champion 3km pursuit
:1st Overall [[Boekel]]
:World hour record: 46,06511 km
::1st Stage 3
:1st [[Omloop van Borsele]]
:2nd National Time Trial Championships
:World [[Hour record]]

;2004
;2004
:Olympic champion time trial
:[[2004 Olympic Games|Olympic Games]]
::1st [[File:Gold medal olympic.svg|15px]] Time Trial
:Olympic bronze medallist 3km pursuit
::3rd [[File:Bronze medal olympic.svg|15px]] Individual pursuit
{{Palmares end}}
:1st [[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px]] National Road Race Championships
:1st [[Ronde van Gelderland]]
:1st [[Omloop der Kempen]]
:1st [[Profronde van Stiphout]]
:1st [[Acht van Chaam]]
{{div col end}}

==Personal life==
Van Moorsel married former track cyclist Michael Zijlaard in October 1995.<ref name=cninterview>{{cite news|last=Knapp|first=Gerard|title=Cyclingnews talks with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/interviews/leontien01.shtml|access-date=25 August 2012|newspaper=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|year=2001}}</ref> They have a daughter.

==See also==
{{Portal|Sports}}
* [[List of Dutch Olympic cyclists]]
*[[List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
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*{{nl icon}} [http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/coureurfichestats.php?coureurid=6518 Results]
* {{Cycling Archives|6518|Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel}}
* {{Olympedia|13253|Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|leontien-zijlaard-van-moorsel|Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel|org_id=leontien-van-moorsel|org_name=Leontien van Moorsel|org_archive=20190619201902}}
* {{NOCNSF profile|leontien-van-moorsel|Leontien van Moorsel}}
* {{IMDb name|2527585| Leontien van Moorsel }}

{{s-start}}
{{s-ach|aw}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Elly van Hulst]] |after=[[Ingrid Haringa]]|years=1990}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Ellen van Langen]] |after=[[Anky van Grunsven]]|years=1993}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Marianne Timmer]] |after=[[Inge de Bruijn]]|years=1999, 2000}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Verona van de Leur]] |after=[[Edith van Dijk]]|years=2003, 2004}}
{{succession box|title=[[Rotterdam Sportsman of the year|Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Francis Hoenselaar]]|after=[[Sissy van Alebeek]]|years= 1998&ndash;2000}}
{{succession box|title=[[Rotterdam Sportsman of the year|Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Sissy van Alebeek]]|after=[[Elisabeth Willebroordse]]|years= 2002&ndash;2004}}
{{s-ach|rec}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Jeannie Longo]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Hour record|UCI women's hour record]] (46.065 km)
| years = 1 October 2003 – 12 September 2015}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Molly Shaffer Van Houweling]]}}
{{s-end}}


== Awards ==
{{start box}}
{{s-awards}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Elly van Hulst]] |after=[[Ingrid Haringa]]|years=[[1990 in sports|1990]]}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Ellen van Langen]] |after=[[Anky van Grunsven]]|years=[[1993 in sports|1993]]}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Marianne Timmer]] |after=[[Leontien van Moorsel]]|years=[[1999 in sports|1999]]}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Leontien van Moorsel]] |after=[[Inge de Bruijn]]|years=[[2000 in sports|2000]]}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Verona van de Leur]] |after=[[Leontien van Moorsel]]|years=[[2003 in sports|2003]]}}
{{succession box|title=[[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Leontien van Moorsel]] |after=[[Edith van Dijk]]|years=[[2004 in sports|2004]]}}
{{succession box|title=[[Rotterdam Sportsman of the year|Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Francis Hoenselaar]]|after=[[Sissy van Alebeek]]|years= [[1998 in sports|1998]]&ndash;[[2000 in sports|2000]]}}
{{succession box|title=[[Rotterdam Sportsman of the year|Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year]]|before=[[Sissy van Alebeek]]|after=[[Elisabeth Willebroordse]]|years= [[2002 in sports|2002]]&ndash;[[2004 in sports|2004]]}}
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{{UCI Road World Champions – Women's team time trial}}
{{UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Women's individual pursuit}}
{{Dutch National Road Championships – Women's time trial}}
{{Dutch National Track Championships – Women's individual pursuit}}


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Latest revision as of 03:52, 1 October 2024

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Moorsel.
Leontien van Moorsel
Leontien van Moorsel in 1991
Personal information
Full nameLeontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel
Born (1970-03-22) 22 March 1970 (age 54)
Boekel, Netherlands
Team information
DisciplineRoad & track
RoleRider
Amateur teams
1992KNWU AMEV Batavus A-selectie Nederland
1997VKS
1999Opstalan
Professional team
2000–2004Hartol–Farm Frites
Major wins
Stage races
Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale (1992, 1993)
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin (1991)
Emakumeen Bira (2000)
Trophée d'Or Féminin (2000)

One day races & classics

Olympic Road Champion (2000)
Olympic Time Trial Champion (2000, 2004)
World Road Champion (1991, 1993)
World Time Trial Champion (1998, 1999)
National Road Champion (1998–2000, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999)
National Time Trial Champion (1997, 1998–2002)
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
Women's Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Road race
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Time trial
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1991 Stuttgart Road race
Gold medal – first place 1993 Oslo Road race
Gold medal – first place 1998 Valkenburg Time trial
Gold medal – first place 1999 Verona Time trial
Silver medal – second place 1998 Valkenburg Road race
Women's Track cycling
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Points race
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Individual pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1990 Maebashi City Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2001 Antwerp Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2002 Copenhagen Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2003 Stuttgart Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 1998 Bordeaux Individual pursuit

Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the hour record for women from 2003 until 2015.[1]

Career

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Leontien van Moorsel at the 2018 Women's Amstel Gold Race.

Van Moorsel started her career in 1977.[dubious – discuss] She won major races both on the track, and on the road. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the Tour Féminin twice, after fierce competition with Jeannie Longo.

Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa[2] but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3 km pursuit). At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race and was stretchered off and taken to the hospital by ambulance,[3] but nevertheless successfully defended her time trial title two days later.

She set a new world hour record for women of 46.065 km, in 2003 in Mexico City,[4] which was not improved upon for almost 12 years, when UCI rule changes prompted a new succession of attempts.

Van Moorsel retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.

In 2017 Van Moorsel became director of the Women's Amstel Gold Race.[5]

In September 2017, Van Moorsel was accused by sports physician Peter Janssen of using EPO in 2000 and 2001.[6]

Major results

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1985
1st National Novice Road Race Championships
1987
1st National Novice Road Race Championships
1988
1st National Road Race Championships
1989
1st National Road Race Championships
1st Stage 1 Tour of Norway
1990
1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
1st UCI Road World Championships Team Time Trial
1st National Road Race Championships
2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
National Track Championship
3rd Points race
3rd Individual sprint
3rd Chrono des Nations
1991
1st UCI Road World Championships Road Race
1st National Track Championships (Team pursuit)
1st Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
3rd National Road Race Championships
1992
1st National Road Race Championships
National Track Championship
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
1993
1st UCI Road World Championships Road Race
1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
1st National Road Race Championships
2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
1997
1st National Time Trial Championships
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
1st Overall Boekel
1st Stages 1 & 3
1998
1st UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
National Road Championships
1st Road Race
1st Time Trial
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
1st Stages 1 & 3
1st Parel van de Veluwe
1st Omloop der Kempen
2nd Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
1st Stage 1
2nd UCI Road World Championships Road Race
2nd UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
1999
1st UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
National Road Championships
1st Road Race
1st Time Trial
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
1st Stages 2 & 7
1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
1st Stages 2 & 3
1st Overall Greenery International
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
1st Overall Boekel
1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 2
1st Damesronde van Drenthe
1st Omloop van Kanaleneiland
1st Omloop der Kempen
2nd Rotterdam Tour
2000
Olympic Games
1st Road Race
1st Time Trial
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Points race
National Road Championships
1st Time Trial
2nd Road Race
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Overall Emakumeen Bira
1st Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
1st Prologue & Stage 1
1st Overall Boekel
1st Stages 1, 2a & 2b
1st Ronde van het Ronostrand
1st Omloop der Kempen
1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 Giro d'Italia Femminile
2001
1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
1st National Time Trial Championships
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
1st Stages 2 & 3
1st Overall Boekel
1st Stages 2 & 3
1st Acht van Chaam
1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
1st Souvenir Magali Pache
1st Profronde van Stiphout
1st Profronde van Surhuisterveen
1st Prologue Giro d'Italia Femminile
1st Stage 1 Boels Rental Ladies Tour
3rd Amstel Gold Race
2002
1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
National Road Championships
1st Time Trial
2nd Road Race
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
1st Overall RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a
1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
1st Stages 1 & 2
1st Amstel Gold Race
1st Damesronde van Drenthe
1st Acht van Chaam
1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
1st Profronde van Stiphout,
2003
1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
1st Overall Boekel
1st Stage 3
1st Omloop van Borsele
2nd National Time Trial Championships
World Hour record
2004
Olympic Games
1st Time Trial
3rd Individual pursuit
1st National Road Race Championships
1st Ronde van Gelderland
1st Omloop der Kempen
1st Profronde van Stiphout
1st Acht van Chaam

Personal life

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Van Moorsel married former track cyclist Michael Zijlaard in October 1995.[7] They have a daughter.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leontien van Moorsel Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Leontiens eigen verhaal" (in Dutch). Leontienfoundation.nl. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  3. ^ "Cycling: Ulmer's rival crashes out - Sport - NZ Herald News". Nzherald.co.nz. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  4. ^ Clemitson, Suze (19 September 2014). "Why Jens Voigt and a new group of cyclists want to break the Hour record". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  5. ^ "It's official: there will be a women's Amstel Gold Race in 2017 | CyclingTips". CyclingTips. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  6. ^ Thomas Blom & Misha Wessel, "Oud-wielerarts: Leontien van Moorsel gebruikte epo" (in Dutch), de Volkskrant, 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  7. ^ Knapp, Gerard (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
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Awards
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
1990 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
1993 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
1999, 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
2003, 2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year
1998–2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year
2002–2004 		Succeeded by
Records
Preceded by UCI women's hour record (46.065 km)
1 October 2003 – 12 September 2015 		Succeeded by
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